Showing some support for Carrie Ann May

So a few days ago, I blogged about getting back into working with the Premier Basketball League for its fourth consecutive season of operations. I talked about how I first joined up with the PBL, how I did everything from photography to statistics to game write-ups – and in other posts on this blog, I talked about doing small-but-important things for the PBL, like singing the national anthem before a game when the original singer didn’t show up, or actually leading a team prayer breakfast in saying Grace.

I talked about all these things, and all the people that are involved in the PBL’s operations – everyone from Dr. Sev Hrywnak, owner of the League; to team owners and players and team front office personnel. Heck, in my 150-maximum-mandated Facebook friends list, the majority of my “friends” are PBL-related entities.

Yesterday, as I was driving home, I called PBL Director of League Operations Carrie Ann May and talked about some of the upcoming things for the new season. “I saw your blog post,” she said. “Nice post. Lots of people appreciated what you wrote.”

I smiled.

“But you forgot someone.”

Hmm… thinking thinking thinking…

And then I realized who I forgot to mention.

And I had been speaking with her for the past 15 minutes.

OOPS!

So let me correct this right here and now.

Carrie Ann May is one of the hardest working people I have ever seen in the minor league basketball community. She, like me, has been part of the PBL operation since day one. She’s arranged travel for the teams, she’s coordinated the league regular season and playoff schedules, and she’s dealt with every possible situation with calm and grace and brilliance and diligence.

It’s because of Carrie’s hard work, for example, that a team doesn’t have a road trip that involves Halifax on Friday night and Dayton on Saturday afternoon. It’s because of Carrie’s hard work, for example, that the PBL has hosted successful pre-season combines this year in Chicago, with dozens of potential new players that are ready to join up with the league. And it was Carrie who was on hand at the 2010 PBL Championship Finals, who handed the trophy to the Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry as the new league champions.

And she’s probably going to strangle me the minute she reads this blog post, because she’d rather get the work done and have the final results be a success, rather than sit there and trumpet all the work she’s done with the league.

Don’t care. She deserves the recognition for a job well done. She doesn’t have to say it.

But I can.

Chuck Miller

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